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Trophy Preparation - How to do it?

How do you you guys prepare your deer heads, the journey from freshly killed animal to the final trophy for display on the wall?? As its nearly buck season just thought I would start planning ahead (ever the optimist!).

Or you can have a o/h that also stalks and preps her trophys in her kitchen with her best cookpots but she still moans at me when l do one thats been hanging around a few days there just aint no pleasing some .

But seriously l/we boil them out in the shed over a camping gas stove because the kids complain about the stink and surprisingly they turn their nose up at the stew that is served up for dinner anytime during the next week

Now, what gauge of wire do you all favour for shoving up the hooter Is that what they call the brain drain

Go careful with the peroxide, cover the head in cotton wool soaked in the stuff, then leave it for a day or two. I think I prefer the female of the species really. Not so smelly, easier to clean and they taste better, is this stalking mirroring life

"Place head in wife's nice big pan with a few spoon's of caustic soda.( don't use aluminium pan's as Costic likes alluminium)".

Good idea, but try to avoid getting this on your antlers, as it will take all the colour out of them,(been there done that) besides there isn't generaly a lot of tissue on the top of the head to require immersion in the caustic.

There is an alternative to caustic soda (sodium hydroxide). caustic is very agressive and if added to boiling water it can be very violent and can also dissolve the bone to nothing (including yours). Instead you can use washing soda also known as soda crystals. Its actuially called sodium carbonate, you can get it from Asda or Morrissons etc. It does exactly the same job as the Caustic, its just a gentler version really. Dont boil the head just simmer it very gently over a few hours ........ the meat will go to jelly and just drop off the bone. You can change the solution a few times. Always pour off the excess through a seive so you dont lose any little nasal bones.

You can get hydrogen peroxide from almost any chemist 30 vols strength is spot on for bleaching out a Roe head and you dont need much.